Why The French Are So Scared & Link To Al Qaeda/Iraq

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[WestCoastGal]

IJAZ: Exactly. But there is another more important and more dangerous thing that is at hand. In my judgment, tomorrow Secretary Powell is going to go in front of the United Nations and make a case.

The case that he makes forensically is fairly clear now, that is that he is going to bring in intercepts and he's going to show exactly what it is we know the Iraqis have been moving around to violate the spirit and the letter of 1441. But what he may not be able as to easily talk about is the connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, because that is not as much of a forensic connection.

HUME: In other words, that is not the kind of thing revealed in intercepts and photographs?

IJAZ: Exactly right. Because now al Qaeda has reduced itself to carrying all if its messages and all the most dangerous things that it does by hand carriage, if you will, by hand messengers.

Now, that is where we come back to what President Bush said in October of last year when he identified a senior al Qaeda leader who had gone to Iraq, received medical treatment to have a leg amputated that was blown up in the Afghan bombing campaign and then proceeded to a northern Iraqi terrorist outfit. What we have not yet heard and this is what my sources are telling me over the past two or three days, is that that leader was in fact, transported through southern Turkey using Albanian mercenaries to transport him into...

HUME: What is his name, by the way?

IJAZ: Abu Masab al-Zawkawi. He was transported through southern Turkey into the Balkans and then ended up in Paris sometime just before Ramadan started...

HUME: Last fall?

IJAZ: ... in 2002, last fall.

Now, the thing that is the most important about this is that when they uncovered the cells in Paris two weeks ago, in the apartment where they uncovered those cells, they found traces of ricin. And those traces of ricin are linked directly to this man Zawkawi.

HUME: These are al Qaeda cells?

[F16Fighter]

IJAZ: The French and the Germans, the two people that are complaining the loudest are the ones with the best intelligence and not sharing it with the world.

Well this is a big surprise, isn't it?

We know France is a whore, but does Germany really need it's rep tainted?

[Jorge]

Ijaz is very credible.

I agree. He is one of the most straight forward and honest experts on world affairs I have ever heard.

He is the one who exposed Clinton for refusing to get Osama when given the chance.

[tinamina]

I always sit up and listen when Monsoor Ijaz speaks. I believe everything he says. He's a Democrat who voted for Clinton and gave millions to the Clinton campaigns, a Muslim from Pakistan, but totally loyal to America and working for our security, whether the government listens to him or not. He recently travelled around the world and went into mosques to see what they were saying everywhere. He believes Saddam Hussein has stashed his WMD, in collusion with terrorists, out of Iraq, like in Indonesia and the Phillipines, in those islands controlled by Muslim pirates. It will be very interesting to see if these weapons are ever found.

[swany]

Sorry for the delayed thanks. Appreciate you clearing that up for me.

[Uncle Miltie]

Ricin suspects were arrested in France then freed
By Sean O'Neill and Sandra Laville
(Filed: 10/01/2003) January 10th, 2003

Two of the seven terrorist suspects being held after the discovery of the deadly chemical ricin travelled to Britain from France last week, according to French intelligence sources.

Agents in Paris, who have been co-operating with the authorities in Britain, said yesterday that some of the men detained in London belonged to a group of Islamic militants which has been monitored for several months.

Some of the men - six of whom are Algerian and one Ethiopian - are believed to have undergone "training programmes" in Afghanistan, the remote Pankisi Gorge region of Georgia and Chechnya.

It is believed that two of them may have been questioned in France about terrorist activities but released - possibly so that they could be kept under surveillance.

The pair visited the La Courneuve district of Paris where four Algerian men were arrested last month and found to be in possession of chemicals and a decontamination suit.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French interior minister, said that the suspects had then been in contact with a prominent Algerian terrorist who had earlier been arrested in Britain and with a cell in Frankfurt.

The spate of arrests on both sides of the Channel are, the authorities hope, dismantling a network created by Algerian Islamic terrorists. French sources say several of those detained have recently returned to Western Europe after a period in Chechnya.

The ricin being made in London may have been intended for use in France rather than against UK targets.

Scotland Yard has not named the men, aged in their teens, 20s or 30s, who were arrested this week after traces of the toxin and a crude laboratory were found in a flat in Wood Green which had been rented to two teenage asylum-seekers.

[swany]

And thank you! This reinforces what I thought earlier.

The people on this site are truly wonderful, all of you. When you don't have time to do your own homework, answers and sources are here, all you have to do is ask.

[WillVoteForFood]

When we roll into Iraq, I wonder how many French and German "advisors" our forces will find roaming around the country?

[philosofy123]

The French and the German are simply unhappy to be treated with disrespect. If the Bush White house allowed Colin Powell to conduct the normal diplomatic discussions with the allies before going public with their militant position, we would not have had this stand up between the Europeans, and the Americans. Incidentally, I am for the military force to REMOVE Saddam, but I am also against flexing muscle on TV as the Bush people do.

[Eaker]

The French are always there when they need us.......

Eaker

[WestCoastGal]

And the plot thickens!!!! The French are up to their eyeballs in doo doo, that's why they are so against the war with Iraq. They know we will find a link there to them and they will not get their deal on the oil that they have with Iraq. They are probably shredding like crazy in Iraq.

Watch both Germany & France come over to our side when they know we will not back down.

[WestCoastGal]

Can you ping this to your list?

[MeekOneGOP]

I looked on FOX News for a link but couldn't find it. Do you have a link to this transcript?

One ping coming up...

[MeekOneGOP]

Why The French Are So Scared & Link To Al Qaeda/Iraq

HUME: These are al Qaeda cells?

IJAZ: These are al Qaeda cells run by Algerian operatives, who are then responsible for going and giving it to the London cell, to the Barcelona cell, to the Milan cell.

And the point I'm trying to make to you is if the French have not publicly acknowledged that they found ricin in that apartment, that is a major breach of what this international war against terrorism is all about. Now, there can only be two reasons for that. One reason is that the French are afraid that there may be 50 other cells like this and don't want to cause a panic inside of France, which is a valid domestic reason.

But I think the more likely reason is that they are deeply concerned if they put that information out there, that then makes the case of al- Zawkawi tied to Iraq, getting recipes from making ricin from Saddam Hussein and bringing those to western Europe to commit terrorist acts.

That is where we sit with the French today, that lying and obfuscation is unacceptable. They need to be called on the mat about this and I hope the secretary will, at minimum, mention the recipe books being moved around inside of Iraq so we can clearly see what the intent of these people are through this process.

HUME: You mean the intent of al Qaeda.

IJAZ: The intent of al Qaeda working with Saddam inside of Iraq.

HUME: Now, in what sense though, would a revelation of this kind other than the fact that this information hadn't been given to western intelligence agency, if it hasn't, embarrass Franc? Very quickly.

IJAZ: It embarrasses France in a very important way. It showed that they are not -- when they had the intelligence -- and by the way, German intelligence is the one that confirmed that Zakawi had gone back to Iraq into Iran. That means the French and the Germans, the two people that are complaining the loudest are the ones with the best intelligence and not sharing it with the world. This is absolutely unacceptable.

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[Alamo-Girl]

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[Mark]

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[MeekOneGOP]

LOL!

[Brian Allen]

They tell me there weren't any Frenchmen until a German [Had sexual congress with] a pig.

Or was that with a Belgian -- I forget .....

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks for "le ping."

I saw this interview and was dumbfounded that the French and Germans aren't sharing their intel. Before all of this is over, I believe we will have found out some very interesting things regarding these two countries.

BTW, Ijaz is my favorite terrorist analyst on FNC and Major Bob is the best regarding military affairs.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Bump!

[MonroeDNA]

The plot thickens.

Old Europe has sucumbed to their own failing socialism, and is officially irrelevent.

France is no friend of the US.